A Woman Police Sergeant riding a motorcycle who was run over by a tipper lorry at Malleheva on Giriulla – Pasyala Road died on the spot. The deceased PS Padmini Ketipearachchi (52) from Thalagama in Ambepussa had been attached to Warakapola Police. Investigations revealed that the motorcycle had hit another motorcycle overtaking it and toppled on the road.
The second term of the IMF review began with 110 commitments ‘pending’ on Sri Lanka’s IMF programme with Sri Lanka and the IMF adding 75 new commitments to the programme, the Verité Research said. The International M
Whilst highlighting that the UN has requested the government to halt the Yukthiya operation, Minister of Public Security Tiran Alles yesterday said he is not ready to work in accordance with the advice given by the international community.
State Minister Sanath Nishantha who met with a tragic death was laid to rest with the lesson for everyone including the politicians that everyone in this world will have to face death in an unexpected moment.
A private candidate, who was appearing for the GCE Advanced Level examination at an examination centre in Mutur, took a photo of the Information Technology question paper with his smartphone. He then sneaked it out to a student at South-Eastern University and obtained the answers. Both the private candidate and the university student were produced before Mutur Magistrate Thasneem Mohamed Fauzan and remanded until February 02.
A group of 12 Indian poachers arrested by the Navy during a search operation in the Sri Lankan waters off Karainagar in Jaffna on January 13, were sentenced to 18 months imprisonment suspended for five years and released after severely reprimanding by Jaffna Magistrate J. Gajanidhibalan on Saturday (27).
Mahanayake of Malwatta Chapter Ven. Thibbatuwawe Sri Siddhartha Sumangala Thera said was with great difficulty that a patriotic and people’s friendly politician could be found nowadays and that the majority of the politicians, after coming into power, forget what they had professed to the people. During a meeting with a gro
Measures are being taken with the support of the Foreign Ministry and the Sri Lanka Navy to release the ‘Lorenzo Putha 4’ - a Sri Lankan multi-day fishing trawler which was hijacked by Somali pirates yesterday, Director General of the Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Department Susantha Kahawatta said. He said the Somali pirates who hijacked the multi-day trawler have not made any communication with the Fisheries Department or any other responsibl
Forty eight year old Sanath Nishantha who hailed from Puttalam, left his house late on Wednesday to attend two weddings, one in Kurunegala and another in Chilaw. While wishing his wife and four children goodbye, little did he know that he would never return. At approximately 1 a.m. on Thursday morning, while he was returning home on the Katunayake Expressway, his Land Cruiser met with a fatal accident as it rammed into a moving container truck. H
In a grim tale of addiction and desperation, Kattankudi Police nabbed two suspects yesterday, uncovering a significant stash of the illegal drug ICE and a shocking story of organ trafficking fuelled by addiction. The raid, led by OIC G.Gajanayake, netted a 32-year-old man caught with nearly 3 grams of ICE. During interrogation, the suspect revealed a chilling truth: he had allegedly sold one of his own kidneys to fund his drug habit. Addi
The government is in the process of introducing amendments to the Penal Code to institute raping of male children as a criminal offence, amend laws on constitutional rape of females mentioned in the Penal Code and to correct the shortcomings in the law of raping of females. The approval had been granted at the meetings of the Cabinet of Ministers held on January 18, 2021 and on June 28, 2021 to introduce amendments to the Penal Code to amend l
The sudden death of State Minister Sanath Nishantha was a great loss to the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and the nation, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday. Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa paid a visit to the state minister’s official residence at Wijerama Mawatha in Colombo and conveyed his condolences to the late minister’s wife and children.
It was recently reported that it was impossible to turn on the lights of the Katunayake express way as thieves have cut and removed the high-voltage electricity cables. It was reported that the robberies had taken place around six months ago. It was also revealed by the officials that the removal of copper wire from concrete covers of the new “Kalyani” Bridge, which was built with a Japanese loan and the removal of cables of the Katunayake ex
After considering the favourable hydroelectric storage and profits earned during the year ending December 2023, the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) was directed by the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) to submit a tariff proposal. Accordingly, the end user and bulk supply tariff proposals by the CEB for January to March 2024 were received by the PUCSL on January 16, 2024. Subsequently, though the Commission had requested certain
The Immigration and Emigration Department officials at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) searched two Sri Lankan men bound for Dubai on suspicion yesterday and found forged Italian resident visa cards in their possession. The immigration officials stationed at the BIA departure terminal detained two males who were about to leave for Dubai last evening and handed them over to the Border Surveillance Unit (BSU) for further inquiries.
Police suspect that high speed and loss of control of the vehicle may have caused the pre-dawn fatal accident yesterday on the Katunayake Expressway, where state minister Sanath Nishantha and his security officer died. The jeep heading towards Colombo from Katunayake collided with a container vehicle when trying to overtake it, and swerved off the road crashing onto the safety fence with state minister Sanath Nishantha, a police constable on
Ceylon Workers’ Congress (CWC) General Secretary Minister Jeevan Thondaman is in the centre of controversy over the presence of South Indian actresses Aishwarya Rajesh, Aishwarya Dutta, Samyuktha Menon, and Meenakshi (Pinky Sarkar) in national Thai Pongal celebrations conducted in Hatton last Sunday. He is under fire from his political opponents who question him whether these South artistes were sponsored using tax payers’ money despite the gove
Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) is to spend more than Rs 20 million to be paid for the people who are to be brought to Colombo for its protest on January 30 2023, UNP General Secretary Palitha Range Bandara alleged yesterday.
Chinese research and survey vessel Xiang Yang Hong 03 which was barred entry into Sri Lankan waters over a policy decision is now on its way to the Maldives after permission was given by its pro-China President Mohamed Muizzu.
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